"I accidentally discovered an evil artifact. Is this the Horcrux you are looking for?"
Damon took out the diary and placed it on the table.
Dumbledore's eyes widened.
He subconsciously picked up the notebook, "Yes, I felt the evil magic and thoughts."
"Thoughts?"
"Yes, thoughts."
"You have not studied black magic, so you may not understand. This is magic that touches the essence of the soul. Voldemort split a part of his own soul and instilled it into this notebook along with his thoughts and will at the time."
Damon became interested, "Only black magic can study the soul?"
"No, it's just the simplest and crudest, and also the most influential choice."
Dumbledore opened the notebook and unexpectedly found that a line of text had appeared on the blank notebook [Who are you?]
"This Horcrux - seems to be very special. Is it that every Horcrux is like this, or..."
Dumbledore looked at the handwriting on the diary and subconsciously had the idea of talking to him - in his heart, he had always been disappointed with Voldemort's fall. Although he had roughly understood the reason for Voldemort's fall, if the words in front of him were related to Tom,
Dumbledore subconsciously picked up the quill and wanted to write on the diary, but a hand suddenly grabbed him from the side.
"Professor, what do you want to do?"
Dumbledore looked at Damon with surprise in his eyes - at this time, Damon's face was so tight that he looked a little indifferent.
"Oh" Dumbledore was stunned for a moment.
Damon was so prepared that he was stunned for a moment.
He wanted to say that this was the first Horcrux he had come into contact with, so he wanted to study how Voldemort made this evil artifact and how they should deal with it.
But after meeting Damon's serious eyes, he suddenly couldn't say this.
"Do you think I should destroy it directly?"
He noticed Damon's intention.
"Of course." Thinking of the fact that Dumbledore would be attracted by the Resurrection Stone on one of the Horcruxes in a few years, and thus be affected by the dark magic attached to it, Damon's words became sharp.
"Professor, has anyone ever told you that you are actually arrogant?"
Dumbledore put down the quill in his hand, motioned Damon to let go of his hand, and responded with a smile:
"If this is your evaluation of me, then I think I have received it."
Damon shook his head, "We don't know much about Horcruxes, and we don't know if Voldemort has added any means to it. Your rash attempt is a kind of arrogance in my opinion.
I have studied this diary for a while using microscopic magic. It should be able to invade the mind through words and achieve the purpose of controlling the body and mind.
Although you are an expert in brain occlusion and may not be affected, I don't think we need to take risks."
"Microscopic magic - is it the spell you created? It seems that its application is more extensive than I thought. Your thinking is flexible."
Dumbledore did not make any excuses for the evaluation of "arrogance", but turned to other topics.
However, after Damon said this, he did not plan to continue studying this diary.
"Where did you find this Horcrux?"
Damon told Damon what happened in Flourish and Blotts today, but he did not say that he discovered it on his own initiative. Instead, he pretended to find it by accident by saying that he gave the wrong book to Ginny and wanted to exchange it for another one.
"Lucius," Dumbledore whispered the name, "Do you know anything about this person?"
"I only know that he is Draco's father."
"Yes, that's right." Dumbledore nodded, intending to share more information with Damon - this disciple actually found the Horcrux before him, and was not bewitched at all, and he also refused to learn the dark arts.
In his eyes, Damon at this moment was almost perfect - if he could slow down his pace, it would be even better.
Dumbledore was no longer worried that Damon would follow Voldemort's old path. Instead, Damon's pursuit of power gave him a headache.
Compared to Damon, he thought Fudge was a better choice for minister - if someone as opinionated as Damon took that position, Dumbledore was afraid that the future of the wizarding world would be controlled by one person and could be manipulated at will.
"The Malfoy family is an old, wealthy and influential pure-blood wizard family. Lucius is one of the directors of Hogwarts and was once a Death Eater. He worked for Voldemort and accumulated a lot of wealth and status during this period. He is a cunning and dangerous person. You have to be careful of him.
Now it seems that he is more troublesome than I thought. He even kept the dark magic items related to Voldemort."
"Why doesn't the Ministry of Magic arrest him?"
"I'm afraid it's not that simple, Damon.
Lucius has a wide network of contacts. After Voldemort was temporarily eliminated, he claimed that he was under the 'Imperial Curse', so he served Voldemort.
Without solid evidence, the Ministry of Magic cannot arrest a wizard at will."
"A tepid approach." Damon commented, not caring.
"Then what would you do if you were the Minister of Magic?" He looked at his students with a flickering eye.
"If I were the Minister of Magic, of course I couldn't do anything." Damon waved his hand, "But if I were an elite Auror, and I accidentally killed a few Death Eaters during the arrest process, no one would blame me."
"I think you'd better not do that." Dumbledore said with comfort, "We should follow the rules and judge them by the rules. In Azkaban, they will realize their mistakes."
"Then do you think Lucius realizes his mistake?"
"." Dumbledore was silent for a moment, and whispered, "I think, even if someone is lost, we should give him a chance to turn back, and sometimes, if handled well, they can become our helpers."
"It's really a good help, otherwise I'm afraid it would be really difficult to find this Horcrux.
I don't know how Voldemort would view Lucius if he knew about this."
At this point, Damon and Dumbledore laughed together.
"I'm afraid the scene won't be pretty."
He stood up and took out his wand:
"Have you tried to destroy it before?"
"I have tried, but even my most powerful spells can't seem to destroy it."
"Well, Horcruxes are special. If you want to destroy such evil objects, you must use destructive power to destroy them to the point where they cannot be repaired."
"It seems that my skills in spells are not good enough."
"Fiendfire"
Dumbledore whispered the spell, and the red and yellow flames ignited the diary, which kept burning.
At the same time, a terrible, long-lasting, ear-piercing scream sounded in the room!
If Dumbledore hadn't taken precautions in advance, it would have caused a big commotion.
Streams of ink gushed out of the diary, but the red and yellow flames were not affected at all, as if they would never go out. It just kept burning until the entire diary was gradually devoured.
As the black gas continued to spread, the diary gradually turned into ashes.
At this time, Damon asked a question that embarrassed Dumbledore.
"The Fiery Curse? Isn't this dark magic? Professor, how can you have such evil magic!"
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